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It would be easy to go on at length about Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE)'s latest production. The Cherry Orchard is a dense play, and PETE gives it an appropriately layered treatment—positively stuffed with meaning, movement, and energy. It has haunted qualities (people skulking around under bedsheets), nostalgic monologues (frequently interrupted), and an underlying through-line of class and generational differences, expressed in each character's footwear. Like I said, you can go a lot of places.
Despite pandemic, construction of Beaverton arts center remains on track
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
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By Joseph Gallivan | Business Tribune
Gathering hundreds of people shoulder-to-shoulder in an auditorium many of them seniors with coughs and sniffles is a no-no in 2020.
The live theater and music worlds are on their knees due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the folks building the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in downtown Beaverton are betting that by early 2022 they can fill their 550-person theater without a worry.
The construction site at Southwest Crescent Street and Southwest Hall Boulevard is wedged between a new parking garage, a new Hyatt House hotel, and The Round condos (so close that you can see what residents are watching on TV). The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts (PRCA) is part of a project to give this part of Beaverton a center of gravity so that locals won’t have to go to Portland so often for entertainment, and visitors are not just